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Okla. executes inmate convicted of killing couple

Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for the October 2000 stabbing deaths of a couple on whose ranch he had worked.Full story

Indiana woman on death row as teen begins life out of prison

Ind. woman sentenced to die at 16 to be released

Former Fort Sill Soldier Gets Life in Prison for Starvation Death

Online Petition Calls For Death Penalty For Men Accused Of Murdering Linton Teen (VIDEO)

Self-proclaimed friends of Katelyn Wolfe have started an online petition asking prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the case against the two men accused of killing the Linton, Ind., woman. Full story

Lawton Jury Sentences Martinez to Death for Murders of Comanche County Couple

The man found guilty of murdering a Comanche County couple in 2009 received the death penalty on Tuesday.Lawton jurors deliberated the punishment of Mica Martinez from about 10:20 a.m. until about 3 p.m.Martinez was found guilty last week of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of assault Full story

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Arias lawyers take case to court of public opinion

North Carolina lawmakers want to repeal bias law, restart executions

Fla. man executed for rape and murder of girl, 10

Papua New Guinea reinstates death penalty after gruesome sorcery killings, rapes

Watch: Toure explains why we should rid the country of the death penalty

Former death row inmate: ‘You cannot climb over an innocent man to kill the guilty’

May 11: Death Penalty, Austerity, Obamacare

Feds press Tsarnaev family, friends for bombing intel

US execution strategy threatened by drug shortfall

Maryland becomes latest U.S. state to abolish death penalty

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  Ariel Castro expected to plead not guilty in Ohio

The man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them hostage for over a decade will head back to court today, where his lawyers say he will plead not guilty to 329 counts, including rape, kidnapping, and murder. NBC’s Jeff Rossen reports and legal analyst Lisa Bloom comments on the case.

  The latest stunner in the Jodi Arias trial

After months of evidence, arguments, and testimony, NBC’s Diana Alvear reports that the jury in the Jodi Arias trial was still deadlocked on whether she should get the death penalty. Richard Gabriel from the American Society of Trial Consultants joins The Cycle to discuss where a group of impartial

  Speculation continues to swirl around Arias sentencing

Attorney Jami Floyd and Richard Gabriel, President of Decision Analysis, Inc., discuss whether the jurors will all agree to give Jodi Arias the death penalty.

  Life or death: Which way will the Arias jury decide?

NBC’s Diana Alvear reports from Phoenix, Arizona as the country awaits the decision of life in prison or the death penalty for Jodi Arias; then attorney Jami Floyd and Cornell law professor John Blume discuss what they expect to see from the jury.

  Touré: Let Jodi Arias live

Touré looks at the high cost of a death sentence and says that if death can’t be administered without error, then it shouldn’t be applied in any case.

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